MINTURN/NEDERLAND, Colo. – The entire Denver Pioneers ski team was in action on Friday as the alpine and Nordic squads competed in two different meets to continue a busy week of racing in Colorado. The alpiners wrapped up the Colorado Invitational with men's and women's giant slalom at Eldora Mountain Resort while the Nordic group opened up this year's Denver Invitational at Maloit Park.
The Pioneers picked up two wins on the day as freshman
Sara Rask won the women's GS at the CU Invitational in Nederland and senior
Bernhard Flaschberger earned his first victory of the season by taking the 5-kilometer freestyle at DU Invite in Minturn.
Denver finished third in the Colorado Invitational with 540 points. Utah won with 655 points while CU was second with 643 points.
Joining Rask in the top 10 in the women's giant slalom was junior
Nora Brand in seventh, while senior
Galena Wardle also scored for the Pios in 14th place. Sophomore
Cooper Cornelius led Denver in the men's giant slalom in seventh and junior
Trey Seymour placed 12th. Senior
Cole Puckett, who was designated as a non-team scorer, came in 14th and freshman
Adrian Minde Hunshammer was the squad's final scorer in 23rd.
On the other side of the Continental Divide, DU is in second place at its own invitational. Flaschberger won the 5K interval start in 14:09.0, and sophomore teammate
Andreas Kirkeng joined him on the podium in third place with a time of 14:47.7. Sophomore
Elijah Weenig was third to help the Pioneers tie Utah for the team win in the event.
In the women's 5K freestyle, freshman
Selma Andersen was the top Pioneer in 11th with a time of 17:26.0. Denver's other women's scorers were junior
Hanna Ray in 17th and sophomore
Bettina Burgess in 22nd.
The Pioneers picked up 149 total points on the day and trail the Utes, who have 199 points after recording three skiers on podiums. Walker Hall finished between Flaschberger and Kirkeng in the men's race, while Novie McCabe and Sophia Laulki were first and second in the women's event.
COLORADO INVITATIONAL FINAL TEAM STANDINGS (through 8-of-8 events): 1. Utah 655; 2. Colorado 643;
3. Denver 540; 4. Montana State 491; 5. Alaska Anchorage 387; 6. Westminster 282; 7. Alaska Fairbanks 231; 8. Colorado Mountain College 111; 9. Nevada 108; 10. Wyoming 30
DU WOMEN GIANT SLALOM INDIVIDUAL RESULTS at COLORADO INVITATIONAL
1.
Sara Rask
7.
Nora Brand
14.
Galena Wardle
23.
Eleri Smart
34.
Josephine Trueblood
DNF:
Mia Hunt
DU MEN GIANT SLALOM INDIVIDUAL RESULTS at COLORADO INVITATIONAL
7.
Cooper Cornelius
12.
Trey Seymour
14.
Cole Puckett
23.
Adrian Minde Hunshammer
28.
Jack Bowers
DNF:
Thomas Hoffman,
Simon Fournier
DENVER INVITATIONAL TEAM STANDINGS (through 2-of-8 events): 1. Utah 199;
2. Denver 149; 3. Colorado 144; 4. Alaska Anchorage 127; 5. Alaska Fairbanks 113; 6. Montana State 108; 7. Wyoming 68
DU MEN'S 5K FREESTYLE INDIVIDUAL RESULTS at DENVER INVITATIONAL
1.
Bernhard Flaschberger
3.
Andreas Kirkeng
11.
Elijah Weenig
23.
Jonah Steinberg
25.
Sivert Wulff
DU WOMEN'S 5K FREESTYLE INDIVIDUAL RESULTS at DENVER INVITATIONAL
11.
Selma Andersen
17.
Hanna Ray
22.
Bettina Burgess
24.
Emma Larsson
Did Not Race:
Sidney Barbier,
Vera Norli
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